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tunnel to other sites??

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:56 am
by sakaveli
hi guys,

our system at work does not allow us access certain pages such as ebay etc. but we recently started a research project where we will need access to these sites, rather than change the whole network settings, is there no way we can use any other website to fetch and load these restricted pages? i hope you can help me out!

sak

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:43 am
by Chris Corbyn
You could fetch the HTML source of the website (and maybe cache the images to a temporary file on the server) but then database connections etc would not work.... it would be way to insecure if all servers could just get other servers files etc and use them.

If it's just a firewall issue and the site is blocked then surely if these sites now need to be accessed your workplace should just unblock them on the firewall? It wouldn't take long